To look this simple
“It takes a lot of money to look this simple.” The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism, Kyle Chayka.
View ArticleThe aesthetics of simplicity cloak artifice
“…we might be able to hold the iPhone in our hands, but we should also be aware that the network of its consequences is vast: server farms absorbing massive amounts of electricity, Chinese factories...
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Simplistic, archaic, and destructive
“Most ideas of history are simplistic, archaic, and destructive.” Complaints: Part I (1969), Donald Judd.
View ArticleThe more words, the less true a text feels
“Writing about emptiness is difficult because words document presence. As soon as you point to something in writing, it’s there, even if what you point to is empty floor. Language often seems like so...
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The Lightning Field
“The Lightning Field (1977), by the American sculptor Walter De Maria, is a work of Land Art situated in a remote area of the high desert of western New Mexico. It is comprised of 400 polished...
View ArticleSilentiarius
“Silentiarius, Hellenized to silentiarios (Greek: σιλεντιάριος) and Anglicized to silentiary, was the Latin title given to a class of courtiers in the Byzantine imperial court, responsible for order...
View ArticleEthics and aesthetics
“Ethics and æsthetics are one.” Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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Pero había que vivir de algo
«Rechazaban la mercantilización del arte: “El espíritu y el dinero son dos polos antagónicos. Si vendes ideas espirituales por dinero, vendes el espítiru al dinero y pierdes el espíritu”, proclamó...
View ArticleObeying the clock
“In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to wake up, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock.” The Shallows, Nicholas Carr.
View ArticleMindless rituals
“…software can end up turning the most intimate and personal of human activities into mindless ‘rituals’ whose steps are ‘encoded in the logic of web pages.’” The Shallows, Nicholas Carr.
View ArticleThose that do not align with the canon
“Glitched bodies—those that do not align with the canon of white cisgender heteronormativity—pose a threat to social order. Range-full and vast, they cannot be programmed.” Glitch Feminism, Legacy...
View ArticleWhen gender is a binary, it’s a battlefield
“When gender is a binary, it’s a battlefield. When you get rid of the binary, gender becomes a playground.” Gender Is a Playground, Kate Bornstein’s Interview, Zackary Drucker.
View ArticleNostalgia has no cure
“Whereas homesickness might be alleviated by returning home, nostalgia has no cure simply because one is typically nostalgic for a time other than the present. Until the invention of time reversal,...
View ArticleLife is work
“In our post-Fordist society, there is little demarcation between life and work. Life is work.” The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner.
View ArticleGender is a scaled economy
“Gender is a scaled economy: it is a mode of regulation, management, and control. … We have the right to deny our use and, through this, close the wounds created by a world fed on binary rhetoric.”...
View ArticleTo rob ourselves
“Every time we elect to have the form autofill the next time around, we participate in an act of naming, the process of identifying ourselves within highly networked social and cultural algorithms. We...
View ArticleResponding to the world as if it were cinema
I wonder if this is why I love walking without a destination. “The flâneur doesn’t walk to get somewhere, but to observe the passing scene; he is a consumer of images, responding to the world as if it...
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The mind struggles to regain its composure
“What is terrible – or sublime – for Kant, in his ‘Analytic of the Sublime’ of 1790, is formlessness. Beauty, so say the Kantian aestheticians, has form. Its objects have definable ‘boundaries’, while...
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